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I don't have much to add to the furor building over the CIA's short-sighted alleged decision to use a fake vaccination campaign to get DNA from relatives of Osama Bin Laden. But I want join my voice to the chorus. I worry that this is going to further poison the well for vaccination, one of humanity's greatest technological achievements.

To that end, I want to point people to a post from Maryn McKenna over at Wired. She writes about being present for a vaccination campaign where, because children were dehydrated and malnourished, vaccines were not generating the expected immune response. An aid worker told her:

“We come back to their neighborhoods, month after month, telling them that these drops will protect their children from being paralyzed,” he said. “We come 10, 11, 12 times and the kids become paralyzed anyway. They start to think we’re doing this for some other reason, and they suspect us, and they don’t want to bring the kids out any more.”